Welcome to Our "Theory for Surveying" Class

This class provides a good grounding in least squares adjustment theory and related statistical analyses for use in surveying.

Before you can proceed with this course, you must first acquire a working copy of the course textbook, which is described in the class welcome page... The details of the book you need are repeated here to emphasize that you must get the fifth edition, published in 2010: Again, the textbook is "Adjustment Computations - Spatial Data Analysis", fifth edition, by Charles D. Ghilani, 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-46491-5. ​

While on the class welcome page, please be sure to download the course resources package which you will need later in the course. ​​​And to continue to study, simply proceed through the following in the order listed... ​

Please note that you are asked to use a spreadsheet (not MathCad) for any extended calculations in your assignments.Note that the "MATRIX" program can be installed using the "Matrix setup.exe" program from your "TheoryCourseResources" folder.